Posted on 06/22/2016 1:10:08 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
In May, Morning Consult polled people with an unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton about why they didn’t like her. Fifty-eight percent said she was too liberal, while 22 percent said she was too conservative. But 82 percent of Hillary-averse voters said she was corrupt, and 88 percent said she was untrustworthy. These are the beliefs that unite her foes across the political spectrum. It’s why Trump, with his devious talent for derisive nicknames, was smart to dub her “Crooked Hillary.”
Some of the examples Trump chose to reinforce this caricature are true. Describing Clinton as “a world-class liar,” he said, “Just look at her pathetic email and server statements, or her phony landing in Bosnia where she said she was under attack but the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers, a total self-serving lie. Brian Williams’ career was destroyed for saying far less.” One could quibble about whose exaggerations have been greater, but Clinton’s Bosnia tale really was mostly made up, and it will likely haunt her throughout the campaign.
Trump is clearly hoping to reach working-class whites in places like Ohio, where a recent poll shows him tied with Clinton. “We’ll never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place,” he said. “The insiders wrote the rules of the game to keep themselves in power, and in the money. That’s why we’re asking Bernie Sanders’ voters to join our movement, so together we can fix the system for all Americans. This includes fixing all of our many disastrous trade deals. Because it’s not just the political system that’s rigged. It’s the whole economy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
That speech was a thing of beauty. Smiling like hell to day! Go Trump!
I hope not. For reasons that shall always befuddle me a majority seems to like the besotted old fool.
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That crazy old man keeps getting re-elected. He does it by saying stupid stuff that some want to hear but the majority are tired of Obama and everyone will look at Biden as Obama White.
Since the #NeverTrump movement is an astroturf operation run by the elites in the GOP, who are among the very people Trump called out in his speech, I don't think that's gonna happen.
The bases were loaded because he’s following up with posts like this on facebook. Notice everything is footnoted.
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Crooked Hillary is now saying she will create jobs, while Trump can not. We can flashback to the last time Clinton made a promise like this.
In 2000, Crooked Hillary promised 200,000 jobs and delivered only 26,000, she called her promise “a little exuberant.” Hollow words for the New Yorkers left out in the unemployment line.
Clinton Pivot: Clinton Failed To Deliver The Jobs She Promised When Elected As A Senator
Clinton Promised To Create 200,000 Jobs In Upstate New York When She Campaigned For Senator In 2000. “She’s reminded of it all the time around here, so Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton couldn’t have been surprised when her failed 2000 campaign promise to bring 200,000 jobs to economically desperate upstate New York became part of the latest presidential debate.” (Carolyn Thompson, “Fact Check: Clinton And Jobs Promised,” USA Today, 2/28/08)
The Region Clinton Sought To Help Actually Lost Nearly 26,500 Jobs During Her First Term As Senator, According To The Business Council Of New York State. “In her first term in the Senate, the region saw a net loss of 26,500 jobs, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics by the Business Council of New York State.” (Carolyn Thompson, “Fact Check: Clinton And Jobs Promised,” USA Today, 2/28/08)
Clinton Acknowledged She Failed To Uphold Her Promise, Calling It “A Little Exuberant.” Clinton recently called the promise ‘a little exuberant.’ During Tuesday’s debate with Barack Obama, the New York senator said she was figuring Al Gore would be in the White House. ‘When I made the pledge, I was counting on having a Democratic White House, a Democratic president, who shared my values about what we needed to do to make the economy work for everyone and to create shared prosperity,’ she said.” (Carolyn Thompson, “Fact Check: Clinton And Jobs Promised,” USA Today, 2/28/08)
Shouldn't that be: Sir Edmund?
I wasn’t saying it was debunked, Slate says it.
From a personality perspective, Trump does not appeal to me at all, BUT...ANYONE who uses the language he uses, the deserved ridicule, I am all in for.
If I hear any more “My esteemed colleague across the aisle...” from anyone on our side, I am going to explode.
Screw that. We are in a critical phase of what is going to happen to our country going forwards, and to paraphrase the darling of the Left, if some eggs have to get broken, and those eggs are the feelings of liberals, Trump can hire me to help out breaking those eggs.
I am far past the point of giving a rat’s patootie what they think someone should be saying to them. Since 1952, liberals have not pulled any punches when it comes to respecting and dealing civilly with conservatives.
I am hoping against hope that Trump has told Lucy, in not so many words, to forget about holding the football for him, because he ain’t running up to kick it.
I referred to the Slate article saying it so I thought it would be obvious. Apparently not, as many have jumped all over me. I guess it’s easier to jump on me than to jump on the lying liberals.
I said that is what Slate said in the article. I’m not saying it.
or the guy in North Korea... Just all kinds of opportunities. At least some of us would laugh and maybe it would help get rid of the worry lines.
Make America Fun Again!
To my knowledge, she's not.
Conservatives don't lose to these people.
Republicans haven't nominated a conservative since Reagan.
P.S. Trump isn't a conservative, either. But he's also NOT an establishment moderate -- abd them's the guys who lose to these people...
If she looks too weak I predict her own party will through her under the bus using the FBI investigation.
You're probably right. They'll be calling for Biden to enter from stage left.
Slate said it was debunked, I didn’t.
Sorry about my lack of comprehension....weather’s to hot and humid for my brain
Love it!
Wow. That is a bit different. The typical Republican candidates of the past few election cycles have more or less said, “If I am elected my first priority will be to work with my friends across the aisle [and not to work for the American people]. We all want the same things. I promise it will be business as usual...”
No need to. The Democrats have a general election ballot in all fifty states. The party can specify who goes on their line.
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